outpost

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1n. — Fur Trade, Hist.

a trading post in the interior; especially a temporary trading station dependent on a larger and more permanent post.

Quotations

1820

There is an Outpost from Fort Vermillion about to be established close to Colville House. . . .

1897

[I] made up the assortment of goods for the outposts, equipped the summer men, clerks, etc.

1913

For instance, Egg Lake was an outpost of Fort Pelly, and Waterhen of Manitobah Post. There was an outpost of Shoal River at Duck Bay.

1965

Norway House was the Old Jack River outpost of the Selkirk settlers.

2n. — Alta, Hist.

See quote at outpost hospital.

See: outpost hospital(see quote)

1955

Accident and emergency cases--for which, in previous years, there was often little hope--received immediate treatment at the nearest Outpost.